All Outputs (3)

Remembering the Queensland Floods: Community Collecting in the Wake of Natural Disaster (2014)
Book Chapter
Were, G., & Besley, J. (2014). Remembering the Queensland Floods: Community Collecting in the Wake of Natural Disaster. In I. Convery, G. Corsane, & P. Davis (Eds.), Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss (41-50). Boydell and Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782044109-009

In January 2011, three-quarters of the Australian state of Queensland was declared a disaster zone, including Brisbane, its capital city, after a series of devastating floods caused widespread destruction. The floodwaters caused over two billion Aust... Read More about Remembering the Queensland Floods: Community Collecting in the Wake of Natural Disaster.

Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society (2014)
Journal Article
Were, G. (2014). Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society. Museum Anthropology, 37(2), 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.12058

This article investigates digital heritage technologies from a Melanesian perspective. It explores—in the context of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea—the types of values placed on digital surrogates as a means to engage critically with recent debates on... Read More about Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society.

Digital heritage in a Melanesian context: Authenticity, integrity and ancestrality from the other side of the digital divide (2014)
Journal Article
Were, G. (2015). Digital heritage in a Melanesian context: Authenticity, integrity and ancestrality from the other side of the digital divide. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21(2), 153-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2013.842607

This article examines how digital heritage, in the form of 3D digital objects, fits into particular discourses around identity, ancestrality and cultural transmission in Melanesia. Through an ethnographic analysis of digital heritage use amongst the... Read More about Digital heritage in a Melanesian context: Authenticity, integrity and ancestrality from the other side of the digital divide.